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A46 sports
guardian.co.tt Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Senior players critical to
Windies turnaround --- Drakes
TAUNTON---Head coach Vasbert
Drakes is optimistic West Indies
Women can turn around their
slump but believes the senior
players must play a key role in
the resurgence.
The Caribbean side lost their
opening game of the ongoing
Women's Cricket World Cup here
Monday when they went down to
reigning World champions Australia
by eight wickets.
That loss came on the heels of
defeats in the two official warm-
up matches last week and in three
unofficial practice games prior,
leaving them win-less on tour.
Drakes said West Indies possessed
the ability and the character to turn
around their form as they had done
several times already in the past.
"Anyone who plays cricket will
tell you that you get better the more
you play and the constraints that we
have is that we didn't play compet-
itive cricket but at this present mo-
ment I'm not going to use that as an
excuse," Drakes said here Tuesday.
"We're going to draw on our nat-
ural resources and that is the abil-
ity to make smart decisions under
pressure situations. We've done it
before, it can be done again.
"We're going to use the expe-
rience of the senior players and
ensure they accept that responsi-
bility to take more ownership and
bat deep. We were in a situation
where in the first 22 overs we were
in the game with Australia ... it has
shown we can bat. The challenge is
to bat and do the basics for longer
periods."
He added: "We had four batters
that got in and they got out also with
soft dismissals so those are the areas
that if we can improve on, I'm sure
we will see a stronger performance
from this unit."
West Indies got starts from teen-
aged opener Hayley Matthews (46),
captain Stafanie Taylor (45), Che-
dean Nation (39) and veteran Dean-
dra Dottin (29) but none carried on
to a significant score as the innings
folded for 204 in the 48th over.
The Aussies then easily chased
down their target in a canter with
left-handed opener Nicole Bolton
striking a classy, unbeaten 107.
Drakes said it was important that
the key batsmen in the Windies
squad made their presence felt in
such a way that it forced a victory.
"We have enough match-winners
in the squad that if they take that
responsibility to bat deep they can
influence the game in a positive
way," the former West Indies seamer
pointed out.
"So we're just hoping that some of
these things we ask for as coaches,
we can get the cricketers to make
the contribution to allow us to be
in the game and stay in the game."
West Indies will once again seek
to turn the page on their ordinary
form when they take on the India
Women in their second match of the
tournament at County Ground here
Thursday.
Significantly, West Indies went
down to the Indians by five wickets
in a warm-up contest in Leicester 11
days ago and were also whitewashed
3-0 in a series in Vijayawada last
November. CMC
Ahye among 12 qualifiers for Worlds
RACHAEL KING
London's calling and
national double sprint
champion Michelle-Lee
Ahye along with 12
other local track
and field athletes
are ready to oblige.
The standout ath-
letes will be London
bound in early Au-
gust after earn-
ing berths to the
World Champi-
onships over the
weekend at the
National Gas
Company/
Sagicor/
National
Associ-
ation of Ath-
letics Administrations
National Open Cham-
pionships at the Hase-
ly Crawford Stadium in
Port-of-Spain.
Ahye had already
booked her spot on the
team on Saturday, fol-
lowing her oustanding
performance in the wom-
en's 100 metres clocking
a record-breaking 10.82
seconds, which is second
on the world list this sea-
son.
She led in a two more
qualifiers in the event
second-place Kelly-Ann
Baptiste with a sea-
son's-best of 10.88 (sixth on
the world list this season)
and bronze medallist Khalifa
St Fort in 11.06, who improved
on her own T&T junior re-
cord. The trio surpassed
the World Champion-
ships standard of 11.26
with Ahye bettering
the national record
of 10.84, which was
previously estab-
lished by Baptiste
back in 2015.
The following
day, Ahye, who
was a finalist in
both the Rio Olym-
pics 100m and 200m,
sprinted to victory in
22.50 to retain her 200m
title and again met the
qualifying mark (23.10),
this time bringing along
University of Kentucky
junior Kayelle Clarke
(22.97) and the 2012
London Olympics 200m
finalist Semoy Hackett in
23.07.
Making the T&T team
on the final day of the
Championships on Sunday
as well were Jereem Rich-
ards, Kyle Greaux, Sparkle
McKnight, who will join
fellow track stars Emmanuel
Callender, Machel Cedenio,
Lalonde Gordon and Reubin
Walters in London for the August
4-13 competition.
Richards will be making his debut
at the World event and is expected to
excel having entertained on the week-
end, breaking the national record in
striking gold in the men's 200m in a
time of 20.15. He along with Greaux,
the silver medallist (20.19), surpassed
the 20.44 standard.
Another making his first appear-
ance is Walters, the 110m hurdles
champion. He clocked 13.34 earn a
spot on the team.
McKnight will make her third
appearance at the World event after
she topped the 400m hurdles final,
clocking a time of 55.61 to also break
the national record.
On Saturday, Callender raced to
victory in the men's 100m and was
the lone sprinter going past the 10.12
standard. He reached the top of the
podium in a time of 10.10.
In the men's 400m, Machel Cede-
nio, a World junior champion, and
two-time Olympic medallist La-
londe Gordon drew the attention of
the selectors. Cedenio claimed gold
in 44.90 and Gordon picked up the
silver in 45.27.
The women's 4x100m relay team
neared its dream of qualifying for
the Championships by winning the
event. The quartet of Baptiste, Ahye,
Reyare Thomas and Kamaria Durant,
running in that order crossed in 42.94
ahead of Nigeria (43.84) and British
Virgin Islands (44.03).
To progress to Worlds, they have
tobeinthetop16attheendofthe
qualification period. Marks recorded
on January 1, 2016 until midnight on
July 23, 2017 (regardless of the time
zone) are acceptable.
The final team will be named by
the NAAA at such time.
Michelle-Lee Ahye recently winning the women's 200m finals at the 2017
NAAA NGC/Sagicor National Championships at the Hasely Crawford Stadium,
Port-of-Spain, on Sunday. PHOTO: CA-IMAGES
Experienced batsman and captain Stafanie Taylor bats in the nets during a
training session. PHOTO COURTESY CWI MEDIA
"We're going to use the
experience of the senior players
and ensure they accept that
responsibility to take more
ownership and bat deep."
---Vasbert Drakes, Head coach
RESULTS
MEETING WORLD STANDARDS
Men 110 Meter Hurdles (World Champs
standards 13.48)
1 Reubin Walters (Memphis Pioneers)
- 13.34
Men 400m (45.50)
1 Machel Cedenio (Simplex) - 44.90
2 Lalonde Gordon (Unattached) - 45.27
Women 100m (11.26)
1 Michelle-Lee Ahye (Rebirth) 10.82
2 Kelly-Ann Baptiste (Zenith) - 10.88
3 Khalifa St Fort (Unattached) - 11.06
Women's 200m (23.10)
1 Michelle-Lee Ahye (Rebirth) - 22.50
2 Kayelle Clarke - (PAP) - 22.97
3 Semoy Hackett (Zenith) - 23.07
Men's 100m (10.12)
1 Emmanuel Callender (Memphis
Pioneers) - 10.10
Women's 400m hurdles (56.10)
1 Sparkle McKnight (Memphis Pioneers)
- 55.61
en's 200m (20.44)
1 Jereem Richards (Abilene) - 20.15
2 Kyle Greaux (Abilene) - 20.19
SUNDAY'S RELAY RESULTS
4x100m Relays
Women
1 T&T Red (Kelly-Ann Baptiste, Michelle-
Lee Ahye, Reyare Thomas, Kamaria
Durant) - 42.94
2 Nigeria - 43.84
3 British Virgin Islands - 44.03
Men
1 Antigua & Barbuda - 38.86
2 Dominican Republic - 39.54
3 British Virgin Islands - 39.78 2
4 T&T Red JR (Dillon Bernard, Jalen
Purcell, Tyrel Edwards, Jerod Elcock) -
40.08
Emmanuel Callender
Lalonde Gordon